LEPIDOPTEBA OF NEW YORK AND NEIGHBORING STATES 499 



June; August. Larva a general feeder, especially on trees. 

 Generally distributed. New York: Ithaca, Schenectady. 



2. P. lamprosana Robinson. Slightly yellower, the darker base, medial fascia, 

 and spot near apex more contrastingly dark, and edged with dark instead of pale. 

 Hind wing of male all dirty white. 



Rarer than P. limitana. June to August. 



Quebec to Pennsylvania. New York: Ithaca, Schenectady, Albany, Staten Island. 

 P. albaniana Walker, described from Hudson Bay, is unknown to me, and I 

 cannot distinguish it, by the description, from P. lamprosana. 



3. P. canadana Kearfott. Darker reddish brown, the three lines strongly waved, 

 especially the inner two, which are practically straight in the other two species; 

 the lines themselves not notably darker or paler, but serving as the boundaries of 

 the contrasting, fuscous gray base, median fascia, and apical patch. Hind wing 

 almost wholly gray. 



July and August. 

 Quebec and Manitoba. 



Family 29. PHALONIID^E 



(Conchylidce; Tortricidce, in part) 



Small, rarely medium-sized, moths. Head somewhat roughly scaled. 

 Ocelli normally small, antennae as in Tortricidse ; tongue weak or absent, 

 when strongest about like the weakest tongues in the Tortricidse. Palpi 

 varying from moderate to long, porrect, beak-like; rough-scaled, the 

 third segment long and porrect. Body small, scaled; thorax usually 

 with a slight posterior tuft. Under side scaled. Legs scaled, the hind 

 tibise with some rough scales or hair. Wings (figs. 288, 289) most 

 often rather long and narrow; rounded; usually bent down at the 

 apex. Usually with a distinct accessory cell, of Tineid type, and the 

 base of M, when traceable, running obliquely across the cell as in the 

 Tortricidae. R 5 running either to costa or outer margin, stalked or free, 

 but free in our species ; the other veins all free. Cu 2 from three-fourths 

 way out on cell or beyond; 1st A absent (distinguishing the family 

 from the few Tortricidae in which Cu 2 arises about three-fourths way 

 out on the cell), 2d A with a large basal fork, with both branches 

 equally strong. Hind wing trapezoidal; Sc normal, connected with 

 R by a weak vein before middle of cell; R and M x approximate or 

 stalked ; M, free, rather close to M 3 , which is separate or stalked with 

 Cu^ Cu 2 arising farther from end of cell than in fore wing; 1st A 

 weak or absent, 2d A with a rather strong basal fork, 3d A very weak 

 or absent. 



Larva3 (fig. 290), so far as known, borers, or feeding in seeds, usually 

 in herbaceous plants. Prothorax with seta delta (subdorsal posterior) 

 below and in front of beta (addorsal posterior) and close to it; 

 iv and v of abdomen in a nearly horizontal line ; seventh segment of 

 abdomen with vii of a single seta; prolegs poorly developed, with 

 uniordinal hooks. Pupa of Phalonia approximating the Cossid type. 



